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Power out and SWR should also be checked from time to time, or if something changes in your equipment. With anything that moves, vehicles, vessels and aircraft, movement leads to wear and failure. I have had many state that their radio "just quit working" only to find a broken connector on a cable, damaged or missing antenna, or corrosion that has worn a cable. A good rule of thumb is to check coax (and antenna and radio) by placing a meter in line and testing once a year at least. In many commercial/municipal/government uses, this is required and spelled out in contracts, and is a compliance issue.

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It's very simple... You need to know what channel the repeater is on, go to that channel, then go into the menus for the TX Ctcss and RX CTCSS (or dcs) and enter them, and you're done.. If you want to create a new, custom channel, it's a PITA on the radio, but super-simple, almost self-explanatory using the software - just fill in the blanks basically.

Finally mounted the Wouxun KG-1000G to the passenger side of the console. The mic mounts to the low end of my JeepUniq cradle (my Garmin InReach Explorer+ mounts on the top). I plan to mount my CB there at some point, then I'll move the Wouxun KG-1000G to under the drivers seat, and will find a place for the faceplate. \

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You can also test as you go. For example, install the antenna and test it, then install the coax and test it, then, if you have adapters, lightning arresters, or anything else to add, install those and test again. The purpose of doing this would be to ensure nothing you add to your antenna system causes any problems along the way. Your most important reading, though, will be the final one, where the antenna system connects to the radio. If you had any flaky readings along the way, hopefully you would have made any necessary corrections, so the final reading should be good (or the last thing you added could be causing a problem). Overall, though, you want to check the antenna system as a whole. The test as you go suggestion is mostly to help rule out problems as you're building the antenna system.

I'm so old that I did learn everything, but now I'm forgetting most of it.